Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doubt, with so many State Governors and big shots enrolled in the Legion mob, it is too much to hope that Congress will ever revoke the Legion charter; but at least we can look forward to the day when every major city will have decided to protect its people from further destruction of property, criminal attacks, intimidation, and indignity. For next year's convention, dear buddies, may I suggest the most inaccessible reaches of the Mojave Desert...
...where he was nominated last June. Nominee Landon renewed his charges of waste, extravagance, secrecy and political corruption in the administration of relief (see p. 19). Best crack: "On Jan. 3, 1934, the President told Congress: 'If we maintain the course I have outlined, we can confidently look forward to greater employment and a diminution of relief expenses.' We did maintain the course he outlined, but did we get any reduction of relief expenses? We did not. At present the Administration is spending in the name of relief at an annual rate of a billion and a half...
Cynics who believe that every Senate investigation is a scandal hunt, that Senatorial inquisitors miss no opportunity to make a headline, were last week surprised and shocked at the backwardness of Senator Gerald Nye's munitions committee in coming forward with its facts on President Roosevelt's second son. The Nye committee had spent months blackguarding the du Fonts, Britain's late George V, a handful of Latin American dignitaries, Woodrow Wilson and the House of Morgan. But not until last week did the press smoke out of its files a two-year-old secret about Elliott...
...White, in his first start on the forward line, opened the scoring when he converted a pass from John Johanson towards the close of the second period. Succeeding tallies were registered by Dick Powell on a pensity kick, White unassisted, Johansen on a pass from White, and Jim Wood on a corner kick from White and a pass from Dick Lewis...
Yesterday in their second practice session after the Brown game Saturday and final before today's encounter, the Crimson still looked ragged. Out-rushed during much of the game by the Bruins the Varsity lacks a scoring punch on the forward line and a fast and consistent halfback defense...